Rosetta & the Comet LandingEngineering Pop Culture! 11/12/2014 54 commentsThe Rosetta spacecraft has a landing craft, Philae, which is today leaving the mother ship and making a 7 hour, 1 km journey to land on comet 67P.

The Other TeslaEngineering Pop Culture! 9/29/2014 5 commentsThis Indiegogo fundraiser is for a Tesla museum in the inventor's decaying lab in Shoreham, N.Y.

RadioShack: The End Is Nigh!Engineering Pop Culture! 9/15/2014 129 commentsPerhaps this is the natural order of business -- Darwinism and RadioShack's impending demise open the door wider for companies like SparkFun and Adafruit to grow.

Machine Fixes That Made Me Go 'DUH!'Engineering Pop Culture! 5/22/2014 21 commentsManufacturing engineer Jeremy Cook discusses a few machine failure problems that seemed complicated at the onset, but were quite simple to solve in the end, and the lessons he learned.

The Cigar Box CreepsterEngineering Pop Culture! 5/21/2014 2 commentsJeremy Cook's Cigar Box Creepster opens up when triggered with a knock or other sound, then slams back down as if to express “his” annoyance.

The Case of the Unconventional CoderEngineering Pop Culture! 5/1/2014 14 commentsSome engineers and programmers insist on marching to their own peculiar drums. Sometimes that can be a good thing, but for managers it can be a complete nightmare.

What were they thinking: Overly complex designEngineering Pop Culture! 5/31/2013 12 commentsI think Wile E. Coyote was the kind of person who created many of the patents I find to write about in my “what were they thinking” series. You know what I mean – those absurdly complicated gadgets...

Blending furiouslyEngineering Pop Culture! 5/28/2013 10 commentsI've been playing with the Image Blender app on my iPad, and I have to say that it is a LOT of fun.

VHF, VHF, wherefore art thou VHF?Engineering Pop Culture! 2/26/2013 39 commentsI want a small box that can connect via WiFi to the Internet on one side and stream live television (in the form of a VHF signal) out of the other side.

My hat's off to ToshibaEngineering Pop Culture! 2/21/2013 12 commentsSo many product test videos show the products only in a good light, so the fact that some of these videos show the products failing puts an interesting spin on things.

Man-from Mars Radio HatEngineering Pop Culture! 11/12/2012 17 commentsBack in the 1950s, the Radio Hat was a portable radio built into a pith helmet that would bring in stations within a 20 mile (32 km) radius.

Hobbit safety video from Air New ZealandEngineering Pop Culture! 11/1/2012 6 commentsAs you embark on your long and exciting journey to New Zealand, you’ll be happy to know that a great adventure awaits you on board, in the form of a particularly well made Hobbit themed safety video, just in time for the big film’s release.

"Arrgghh," said I…Engineering Pop Culture! 10/31/2012 18 commentsIn which we discover yet another way in which Hurricane Sandy can mess up your day…

Gadget guts? Try these for graphic graphicsEngineering Pop Culture! 10/29/2012 3 commentsAs we become more and more attached to electronic devices, Peitersen’s art imagines devices taking on a whole biological being of their own, as grotesque as that may be at first glance.